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police force. 1 Ultimately, it will also provide a mechanism for implementing a fully consolidated calling center for all emergency services (police, fire, rescue, and ambulance) within the University and Champaign and Urbana communities. The city of Champaign has served as the principal applicant for the M E T C A D related grants and has agreed to serve as the agency for providing the necessary governmental services for M E T C A D including purchasing, contracting, employment of necessary personnel, and personnel services. T h e city of Champaign will bill the participating jurisdictions for their respective shares of the cost of operation based upon budgets and cost-sharing percentages approved by representatives of the jurisdictions. It is proposed that the University enter into an agreement for the continuing operation of M E T C A D for an initial period from May 1979 to June 30, 1979, with provision for renewal for successive fiscal years by mutual agreement of the parties, subject to the availability of funds. T h e agreement would also provide for an Interagency Administrative Committee on which the University would be represented to establish M E T C A D policies and to approve the proposed M E T C A D budgets and cost-sharing percentages. 2 Funds to support the campus share of the M E T C A D project to June 30, 1979, are available from state appropriations to the University for FY 1979. Should the M E T C A D agreement be renewed for FY 1980, state appropriations will be used, subject to their availability. The chancellor at the Urbana campus has recommended that an agreement as described be authorized, that it be amended when necessary to add parties, and that it be renewed annually thereafter subject to the availability of funds and subject to the approval of the chancellor and the vice president for administration. I concur.

Appointment of Community Advisory Board for University Radio and Television Stations

(27) The Public Telecommunications Financing Act of 1978 became law on November 2, 1978, and provides that public television and radio stations which receive financing through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting must take certain steps to insure continued eligibility for the receipt of such funds. One requirement is that the Board of Trustees, as the governing board of a public broadcast licensee, establish a "community advisory board" (CAB), the composition of which reasonably reflects the diverse needs and interests of the communities served by the University's public television and radio stations. Under the act, such a board must be permitted to review the programming goals established, the service provided, and the significant policy decisions rendered by the stations. T h e CAB is to advise the Board of Trustees, as the governing body, with respect to whether the programming and other policies of the stations are meeting the specialized educational and cultural needs of the communities served, and may make such recommendations as it considers appropriate to meet such needs. T h e role is solely advisory in nature and in no case is the CAB to have any authority to exercise control over the daily management or operation of the stations. T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the following individuals be appointed to constitute and serve, until further action by the Board of Trustees, as the Community Advisory Board for the University's television and radio stations. T h e

1 The University's share of operating costs for the first full year of operation would approximate $78,600. During this same period the cost of operating a separate University dispatch center would approximate $87,600, including employer retirement contributions and state-paid benefits. 1 Matters relating to budget, capital expenditures, basis for distributing costs among the participants, and certain related financial matters would require the unanimous vote of the parties. Other matters would require a majority vole.